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"crack" has meaning of "make laugh"? What does "crack" mean in here?

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Rebecca

The word "crack" here means to solve, figure out the answer to something, or get something done. So "I've gotta crack this" here means that he wants to figure out how to finish writing a really good speech. Here's a few more examples of "crack" in this context: Ex: He cracked the code to the safe. Ex: Yesterday I cracked out ten pages for the book I'm writing.

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